Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-17
wholly my own act. Ny mother knows

wholly my own act. Ny mother knows
absolutely nothing of
When pressed for his motive Lee would
at first only say: You know well what's
been in the papers" Being further urged
he burst out: He tried to prove my
mother an adulteress and adventures
Now he wanted to make out my sister a
bastard That's all will say
REMARKABLE CAREER.
The career of the young mans mother is
in many respects remarkable She has
been married several times, and was di-
vorced once; and, as department clerk in
the Government service at Washington,
she is understood to have been concerned
in some decidedly sensational incidents. 1t
was as the possessoT of considerable real
estate in Chicago that she first became &C.
quainted with Rawson. Their marriage
soon followed. That was about five or six
years ago. Rawson is 81 years old, and this
wife claims) physically wreck. What
ever the cause of their disputes, the matter
finally went to the Courts. On September
%, 1886, Mrs. Rawson's long-threatened
bill for legal separation from her husband
was filed. The allegations were cruelty
and the refusal of her husband to support
her, closing with recital of how he had
installed detectives in their home, to close
it up when Mrs. Rawson should leave.
PHENoMBNALLY AWFUL" woMAE.
Rawson had in the meantime left the
house and taken up his abode with friend
In his answer to the bill Rawson avowed
that his married life had been a terrible
and continual drama of domestic calamity
and wretchedness, the sole cause of which
was his wife's ,phenomenally awful, devil
lsh and wicked temper and habits
of profanity and blasphemy, which
were not revealed to him until
after his marriage. Going into her
history, Rawson declared that his wife
had made false representations to him to
get him to marry her, when she represented
that she was the widow of Charles G. Lee,
who left her comfortably off, and the
mother of two children. He further. testi-
fled that his wife was married in New Or
leans on April 3, 1866. to John g. Stay
maker, who at the time the bill was filed
was living at Arkadelphia, Ark, and the
divorce obtained from Slaymaker few
years later was illegal. Consequently the
marriage with the defendant should be de-
clared void.
On August 5, 1886, he refused to place
any more money to her credit at the bank,
and on September Doth she was refused ad-
mittance to his house, and detectives were
left on guard to prevent her gaining admis-
sion while the suit was pending. A porter
on st. Louis sleeping-car testified that
Mrs. Rawson had occupied berth with a
strange man on his sleeper. This story
was partially corroborated by other parties
and car conductors. All these allegations
were emphatically denied by Mrs. Rawson,
and later the colored porter was brought
up before Justice Lyon on a charge of per-
jury, when he acknowledged the untruth-
fitness of his former statements Since
then every point, especially in the matter
of alimony, has been contested with in
creased bitterness, the elimination being
Rawson's additional charges and to-day's
horrible tragedy.
RAwsoN WILL PROBABLY DIR.
CHICAGO, October 16th.-At four o'clock
this afternoon, Mr.. Rawson had attorneys
called in and made his will AT midnight
the wounded mans condition was un-
changed, but there is very little hope of
his recovery.
General l. n. Stiles, who has been acting
as Mrs. Rawson's attorney in the divorce
case, says he is not prepared to state as yet
whether he will defend young Lee. He
says, however, that he will stand by Mrs.